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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Ribble Valley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Ribble Valley website
22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Nov 1992 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Black Bull Hotel Church Street Ribchester
Received 20 Aug 2015Angerham Barn Clitheroe Lane Withgill Great Mitton BB7 3LW
Received 27 Aug 2015Oakhill College Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 11 Aug 20157 Clayton Court Longridge Nr Preston PR3 3UD
Received 25 Aug 201511 Haugh Avenue Simonstone BB12 7HZ
Received 25 Aug 2015Land to South-West of Barrow and West of Whalley Road Barrow Lancashire
Received 11 Aug 2015Harrison-De-Moss Moss Lane Chipping PR3 2TR
Received 12 Aug 2015ARMRYDDING FARM, CHIPPING ROAD, CHAIGLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 28 Jan 2002Ryden Cottage Whalley Road Stonyhurst BB7 9PN
Received 11 Aug 2015112 Hacking Drive Longridge PR3 3FP
Received 26 Aug 2015Pond 250m from Little Painley Bowl Barrow off A682 Settle Road Newsholme
Received 11 Aug 2015Land formerly part of Standridge Farm Tosside Road Slaidburn BB7 4TR
Received 27 Aug 2015Land off Knowles Brow Stonyhurst Clitheroe BB7 9PT
Received 22 Aug 2015New Laithe Skipton Rd Gisburn BD23 3JP
Received 26 Aug 2015Roundabout Filling Station Chatburn Road Clitheroe BB7 2AP
Received 26 Aug 2015Little Mearly Hall Farm Worston Clitheroe BB7 1PU
Received 24 Aug 2015Nabside Farm Moor Lane Whalley BB7 9JQ
Received 13 Aug 2015Eastham House Farm Mitton Clitheroe BB7 9PH
Received 26 Aug 2015NEW BARN FARMHOUSE, ALSTON LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 30 Jan 2002The Coach House Lower Lane Longridge Lancashire PR3 2YH
Received 2 Sept 2015Butchers Laithe Anna Lane Bolton by Bowland BD23 4SJ
Received 18 Aug 2015Land adjacent to St Paul's Church Edisford Road Clitheroe Lancs
Received 18 Aug 2012Brockhall Village Old Langho Blackburn BB6 8AY
Received 2 Sept 2015New Hall Barn Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale PR3 3ZQ
Received 21 Aug 2015Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Ribble Valley Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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